10 reasons to watch UFC Fight Night 96 with a main event in the red on the Fun-O-Meter

The UFC is in Portland, Ore., for Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 96. If you’re a fan of 5-foot-3 fighters with a fondness for throwing bungalows, you’re in luck: John Lineker and John Dodson are headlining the event.

One of the reasons fans give for shying away from the lighter weights is the lack of knockouts. Lineker and Dodson are not representative of that trend. Lineker has knocked out 13 of his opponents. Dodson has nine KO wins, and if either man adds another knockout to his resume, it’ll be a first: Neither has ever been knocked out.

In the co-main event, Will Brooks looks to take his second step toward a UFC title shot when he faces Alex Oliveira in a lightweight bout – though Oliveira missed weight today, coming in at 161.5 pounds.

FS1 carries the main card of UFC Fight Night 96 from the Moda Center, and FS2 and UFC Fight Pass have the prelims.

Here are 10 reasons to watch the event.

1. In the red

As far as fights go, the bantamweight bout between Lineker (28-7 MMA, 9-2 UFC) and Dodson (18-7 MMA, 7-2 UFC) pushes the ol’ fun-o-meter into the red. That’s right: It’s solidly in the “woo-hoo!” category.

Two of the most exciting and powerful strikers in the division square off in the headliner contest, and it’s pretty much a guarantee both are going to be looking for a finish.

On the downside, it’s easy to look at this bout and see a flyweight scrap contested at bantamweight, and that means if these two want to move up the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA bantamweight rankings, where Lineker is ranked No. 8, they’re going to have to put on one heck of a show. That’s not to say that these two don’t belong in the bantamweight conversation, they do, but after fighting at flyweight for a good chunk of their UFC tenure, anything short of a “Fight of the Night”-worthy performance will bring out the naysayers.

So, what I’m saying is, don’t expect anything but the best from these two.

2. Gunning for gold

MMA math tells us that former Bellator lightweight champion Brooks could beat current UFC lightweight kingpin Eddie Alvarez, right? Brooks defeated Michael Chandler twice and Chandler topped Alvarez once and therefore Brooks comes out on top over Alvarez.

Yes, I know: MMA math is silly, useless and false.

One thing that’s true is Brooks, who joined the UFC in June anddefeated Ross Pearson in his promotional debut, is gunning for that UFC title.

To take the next step toward that goal, Brooks (19-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC), the No. 10 ranked lightweight, has to get past Oliveira (15-3-1 MMA, 4-2 UFC), who returns from welterweight for this contest. Oliveiradefeated James Moontasri in his last bout.

3. A need to impress

Josh Burkman is having a rough go in his second stint with the UFC, with one win in five trips to the octagon. In Portland he’ll make his third appearance as a lightweight, and Burkman (28-13 MMA, 6-8 UFC) will do so against a fighter with nothing to lose, late replacement Zak Ottow (13-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC).

Burkman most recently dropped a unanimous decision to Paul Felder, but he showed improved boxing early in the fight, landing 59 percent of his strikes, a number that was much higher than his 44 percent average. However, Burkman’s focus on his boxing dropped in rounds two and three and so did his landing percentage, and Felder took control of the fight.

If Burkman can control range with his strikes and keep a high output throughout the fight he stands a good chance of winning. If not, he could find himself back on the local circuit.

4. Watch the start

Louis Smolka has a lot of momentum heading into UFC Fight Night 96. Unfortunately, he lost his original opponent, Sergio Pettis, due to injury and Smolka (11-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC) now faces UFC newcomerBrandon Moreno (11-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC) in a flyweight contest.

This isn’t an ideal fight for the No. 13 ranked Smolka. He’s won his last four fights, most recently defeating Ben Nguyen in a “Performance of the Night” bonus-winning performance, and he obviously hoped to move up the rankings with a win over Pettis. That’s probably not in the cards if he defeats Moreno.

What Smolka could do in this fight is shore up his one glaring weakness, his slow starts. If he’s able to do that and add a fourth stoppage to his UFC record, he should be able to carry his current momentum through to his next bout.

5. Banking on a finish

On paper, the light heavyweight contest between Luis Henrique da Silva (11-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) and Joachim Christensen (13-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC) looks like a weird choice to headline the prelim card, what with these fighters having one UFC fight and zero Wikipedia pages between them. However, if you dig into their records you can see what the UFC is hoping for here, and that’s a finish. Da Silva and Christensen have combined for 20 stoppage victories with the majority of those finishes coming in the first round.

6. Stepping up

You have to hand it to Andre Fili (15-4 MMA, 3-3 UFC). The Team Alpha Male featherweight is following a brutal knockout loss to Yair Rodriguez with a short-notice fight against No. 14 ranked Hacran Dias (23-4-1 MMA, 3-3 UFC). That shows some gumption.

Before losing to Rodriguez, Fili told MMAjunkie: “I have a lot to prove. I’m very angry. I’m very frustrated. I need to show people I’m one of the best guys in the world.” You can bet that feeling has only multiplied since the loss to Rodriguez.

Dias also lost his last fight, dropping a decision to Cub Swanson. To make matters worse this time around, Dias missed weight and has to forfeit 20 percent of his show money to Fili.

7. Veteran fighters collide

Tamdan McCrory was a feel-good story in 2014-15. After five years away from MMA, he returned with the three straight stoppage victories. That winning streak ended in June when Krzysztof Jotko knocked him out. At UFC Fight Night 96, McCrory (14-4 MMA, 4-4 UFC) gets a chance to get back on the winning track when he faces Nate Marquardt (34-16-2 MMA, 12-9 UFC) in the UFC Fight Pass featured prelim.

Marquardt, coming off a knockout loss to Thiago Santos, has been written off more than once during his current 2-6 skid. But just when it seems he’s at the point he’ll be shown the door, he comes through with a surprising victory.

8. Looking to get one back

Jonathan Wilson (7-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) and Ion Cutelaba (11-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC) might not be household names, but they should produce an entertaining light heavyweight scrap at UFC Fight Night 96. These two tend to look for the knockout often and early, and for the most part, they succeed, with 15 KOs between them.

What makes this fight more interesting is that they are both coming off stoppage losses, Cutelaba dropping a third-round submission to Misha Cirkunov and Wilson falling by TKO to Luis Henrique da Silva. With those losses hanging over their heads expect these two to look to add another early finish to their records.

9. Looking to return the favor

Kelly Faszholz got her first UFC opportunity as a last-minute replacement, stepping in to face Lauren Murphy at UFC Fight Night 83. Faszholz received a rude welcome, leaving the fight bloodied and with the first loss of her career, but she did show some promise in the “Fight of the Night” bonus-winning defeat.

Faszholz was thought to be a jiu-jitsu specialist heading into her match against Murphy, but she showed surprisingly good striking, landing solid combinations from distance while also working well in the clinch. Now with a full camp behind her, and any octagon jitters gone, Faszholz (3-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) faces the debuting Ketlen Vieira(6-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) in this bantamweight contest.

10. Show us what you’ve got, champ

Last week bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz got his opportunity to work color commentary alongside Jon Anik. This week light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier gets his shot in the cageside seat.

Social media seemed to give Cruz high grades for his work in Brazil. If there was a complaint, it was that he sometimes tried to fill too much space with his commentary. Which as complaints go, is a minor one and something that can be overcome through comfort and repetition.

While Cormier will be under pressure to live up to Cruz’s performance, he probably won’t have to worry about getting the finger from any of the fighters at UFC Fight Night 96.

For more on UFC Fight Night 96, check out the UFC Rumors section 

Les Miles is gone, which college football coaches are really safe? Doug Lesmerises

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State swatted stability two weeks ago. Maybe the surprise is that Oklahoma's Bob Stoops was around to absorb it.

With the firing of LSU's Les Miles this week, there are only four college football coaches currently employed by schools where they have won a national title: Alabama's Nick Saban, Ohio State's Urban Meyer, Florida State's Jimbo Fisher and Oklahoma'sStoops. The Sooner boss is officially an anomaly now as a coach who won his title in 2000 and 16 years later remains employed despite lacking title No. 2.

Here's a longevity tip for college football head coaches who'd like to settle in for more than a decade.

Don't win a national title.

Rather than buy you time, all it does it make fans, boosters and athletic departments ravenous for a second one. You did it once, the reasoning goes, so what the heck is wrong with you now? You think nine- or 10-win seasons are going to cut it? Not at this school -- we are national championship quality.

The safest places are the schools where good is seen as great, where a conference title is viewed as the equivalent of a national one. Heck coach, you may not have to actually claim any crown. Just get in the conversation every now and then and your fans, with no built-in assumptions about their title worthiness, will be blissful.

Or at least they won't want you gone.

"It's crazy and it's getting crazier," said Meyer, who won two national titles at Florida and wasn't fired, but basically ran himself out of the school from the pressure of trying to maintain the level of success and expectation.

"And to much is given, much is expected," Meyer continued, acutely aware of the blessings and burdens of big-time college football. His year away from coaching as a TV broadcaster in 2011 helped him understand that even more.

"Television contracts and the College Football Playoff and the intense fan and support that we have now ... when I was at ESPN is when I really learned how good college football is. And it's pushing everything to be the best. So, it's just part of the business, part of the game, with all this great support and great rewards, it also comes a lot of pressure."

Stoops and Iowa's Kirk Ferentz are the major college coaches with the longest tenures, both in year 18. Stoops, at 180-48 with 10 AP top 10 finishes including that title, gets mocked as "Big Game Bob," because fans think he doesn't win those big games anymore. Ferentz, at 130-88, has five top 10 AP finishes (with just two in the last 11 years) and just picked up another contract extension.

Gary Patterson, at year 16 at TCU, has one Big 12 title in four years after an amazing run in the Mountain West and is a hero. No title.

Kyle Whittingham in is year 12 since taking over for Meyer at Utah, has four top 25 AP finishes and is set.

Mike Gundy, in year 12 at Oklahoma State, averaged 8.5 wins per season since succeeding Miles there.

In.

Miles averaged 10.2 wins per season at LSU since leaving Oklahoma State.

Out.

We know Miles, who led the Tigers to the 2007 national title by beating Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl, is gone. What happened to these other title-winning coaches?

Gene Chizik won the 2010 national championship on Cam Newton's back at Auburn, went 8-5 and 3-9 the next two years and was fired. A title bought him two years.

Mack Brown won the 2005 national title at Texas, won 9.4 games per year over the next eight seasons and resigned.

Pete Carroll won back-to-back titles in 2003-04 at USC and was chased to the NFL by NCAA sanctions after the 2009 season.

Larry Coker won the 2001 title at Miami and was fired five seasons later.

Phillip Fullmer won the 1998 championship at Tennessee and was fired 10 seasons later.

Even Jim Tressel got a taste of this. After the Buckeyes' 2002 title, their trips to and losses in the 2006 and 2007 national championship games were not greeted by most fans as accomplishments. They were seen as disappointments and shortcomings.

Tressel had led Ohio State to its first national title in 34 years, and all of a sudden, finishing second in the country wasn't good enough.

So here's one that will get you -- imagine a world where Meyer is someday pressured to leave Ohio State.

It's impossible to think about at the moment. The idea that Meyer and Alabama's Saban, with his four titles with the Crimson Tide, are the exceptions to every college coaching rule makes a lot of sense.

Saban and Meyer, both with titles at previous stops, can write their own tickets at their current homes. They recruit. They win. They dominate. They set the standard for the rest of college football.

All those things should allow them to determine their own fates for the rest of their careers. 

But winning one title sure isn't enough.

Donald Trump appears in unearthed 2000 Playboy tour video featuring naked women touching themselves and each other

Donald Trump unleased a bizarre early-morning Twitter attack on the “worst” Miss Universe, touted by Hillary Clinton’s campaign as the epitome of the businessman’s war on women, suggesting the Democrat helped the Venezuelan beauty get into the U.S. as a conniving election ploy.

“Wow, Crooked Hillary was duped and used by my worst Miss U. Hillary floated her as an "angel" without checking her past, which is terrible!” Trump tweeted early Friday, days after two-decade-old allegations resurfaced that 1996 Miss Universe Alicia Machado was part of an attempted murder plot .

Trump again name-called Machado, whom he once reportedly dubbed “Miss Piggy” because she gained post-pageant weight, during the series of vicious early morning tweets.

“Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?” he asked.

For those few people knocking me for tweeting at three o'clock in the morning, at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call!," he wrote Friday afternoon.

While court records indicate Machado was once charged as an accomplice to an attempted murder, allegations that she starred in a sex tape cannot be confirmed.

Clinton quickly condemned her rival’s tirade with her own lengthy Twitter rant and said it was just another attack on women.

Orioles beat Blue Jays to set up potential weekend wild-card drama

                               

Welcome to The Walk Off, the nightly MLB recap from Big League Stew. Here we’ll look at the top performers of the night, show you a must-see highlight and rundown the scoreboard. First, we start with a game you need to know about.

The powerful Baltimore Orioles’ first two runs came courtesy of a sacrifice fly and an RBI fielder’s choice. The third run was driven home on a ground ball through the right side. So was the fourth.

Not how you would expect the team that leads the major leagues in home runs to generate its offense, but as long as they scored more runs than the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday night it was good enough. One run would have been enough in this game.

Orioles starter Ubaldo Jimenez – he of the 5.71 ERA on the season, but 3.17 ERA in the second half – shut out Toronto over 6 2/3 innings and Baltimore’s lights-out bullpen did the rest in a 4-0 win at Rogers Centre where the home team managed just one extra-base hit.

The boos from the sellout crowd hoping to see the Blue Jays grab a stranglehold on the wild card began well before the bottom of the ninth when Josh Donaldson and Jose Bautista struck out against reliever Brad Brach. It was Bautista’s third strikeout of the game and Donaldson was retired on strikes twice. The offensive woes that have plagued the team this month has put them in a less-than-ideal spot.

Marcus Stroman pitched into the eighth, a welcome sight for manager John Gibbons as he entered the game knowing his bullpen wasn’t at full-strength. Stroman gave up nine hits, but kept Baltimore’s sluggers from hitting a ball over the fence, which is an accomplishment worthy of kudos.

With Baltimore taking two out of three in the series, the Blue Jays and Orioles enter the final weekend of the regular season tied in the American League wild-card race. Toronto does hold the tiebreaker, meaning they’ll host the wild-card game if they can at least match Baltimore’s record over the weekend. There are certain factors, however, that are out of their hands.

The Red Sox, the Blue Jays’ opponent, are playing for playoff positioning as champions of the AL East. The Yankees, the Orioles’ foe, are playing for pride. Both situations bring up interesting questions about what kind of lineups both teams will field, especially when it comes to who might pitch.

The Tigers’ rainout against Cleveland earlier Thursday further complicates matters. Detroit is 1 1/2 games behind the Jays and Orioles, and depending on how the weekend plays out with their series against the Braves, may have to play a makeup game against the Indians on Monday if they can still claim a wild-card spot or force a Game 163 with a win.

This weekend has the potential to bring some real wild-card drama in the AL.

CC Sabathia: Sabathia went 7 1/3 innings, allowing one run and striking out eight in the New York Yankees’ 5-1 win over the Boston Red Sox. It was the left-hander’s final start of the season and he ends the year with a 3.91 ERA in 179 2/3 innings, which is his best ERA since 2012.

Byron Buxton: The one-time No. 1 prospect in baseball reached base three times, including an exhilarating triple, as the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 7-6. Buxton has an OPS above .900 in 26 games in September after spending the bulk of August in Triple-A.

Justin Turner: Turner has been a steady offensive contributor all season for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he did it again in a 9-4 win over the San Diego Padres, with three hits, two runs scored and an RBI.

Yadier Molina hit a RBI double in the bottom of the ninth to lift the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds. Or did he? Or rather, should it have counted? Molina’s double scored Matt Carpenter from first, but upon further review it appears the hit should have been called a ground-rule double, meaning Carpenter would have been stopped at third.

Where to Watch Tonight’s Presidential Debate, From L.A. to NYC

Calm your election nerves by drinking at one of these viewing parties.

If there was ever a grudge match to tune in for, this is it—and it’s not even on Pay Per View. One of the biggest events of the 2016 presidential election—the first of three televised debates between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican contender Donald Trump—kicks off tonight at 9 p.m. ET at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. and millions are expected to tune in. Literally, millions: ABC News is projecting that 74 percent of Americans will watch, a number rivaled by the Super Bowl. Need a place to take part in the excitement (or terror)? Have a look at our list of debate gatherings in a city near you. (Note: all times are for the local time zone.)

LOS ANGELES

The Standard, Hollywood

Dress up in your best presidential wig (you know, that you happen to have lying around) for The Standard Hollywood’s ‘Wigs of the White House’ debate series kickoff party. If you show up in costume, you’ll score a free red or blue drink (you might need it!). We hope ‘Pantsuit Night’ is coming up next…

6 p.m. Free entry. Drinking games included.

The Standard, Downtown LA

Head downtown to SPiN Standard for a watch party with ping-pong and free red and blue shots every time Clinton or Trump rack up 10 of their signature buzzwords—this promises to be a night of fun, LOSER.

6 p.m. Free entry.

The Theatre at the Ace Hotel

Join the Los Angeles Times’ politics team for ‘The Debate Watch Spectacular’—a watch party with live debate analysis at the Ace Hotel in Downtown L.A. Get comfy and critical in one of the 1,600 seats of The Theatre, the hotel’s beautifully restored 1920s cinema.

5 p.m. $13 entry.

SAN FRANCISCO

SoMa StrEat Food Park

Watch the debate al fresco at SoMa StrEat Food Park, the Bay Area’s largest food truck park and beer garden. Surrounded by ten big screen TVs, you won’t miss a beat—even while standing in line for La Jefa tacos.

Bengals get back on track vs. Dolphins on 'Thursday Night Football'

Andy Dalton is one of the NFL's most efficient passers. This fact often gets lost when you distinguish Daytime Dalton from Prime Time Dalton, who, in his first five NFL seasons, was relentlessly criticized for his inability to play well in nationally televised games -- both in the regular season and the playoffs.

On Thursday night, the Bengals host the Miami Dolphins in a matchup between two teams that share a losing record (1-2) but not much else. Dalton, coming off his best NFL season, was primed to earn that first playoff win but he suffered a late-season thumb that jump-started a series of events that inexplicably culminated in the Bengals finding new and inventive ways to lose to the Pittsburgh Steelers in January.

Dalton almost certainly would have been the difference. Unfortunately, Bengals fans don't live in that alternate universe.

Meanwhile Adam Gase, fresh off fixing Jay Cutler in Chicago, took the Dolphins job in the offseason, presumably because he thought he could work similar magic on Ryan Tannehill . Through three games there's little to celebrate, though the Cleveland Browns selflessly gifted the Dolphins their first win of the season last Sunday.

And that's where the similarities end between these two teams; the Bengals have lost close games to the Steelers and Denver Broncos -- two teams expected to make the playoffs -- while the Dolphins were sluggish against the Seattle Seahawks in the opener and were down 21-3 to the Jimmy Garoppolo-led New England Patriotsbefore he was replaced by Jacoby Brissett .

The bottom line: Both teams need wins, though the Bengals are under the most pressure. Realistically, expectations weren't high for the Dolphins in 2016, even with Gase, Quarterback Whisperer. But if Cincinnati loses on Thursday night, they're at Dallas and at New England the next two weeks and a 1-5 start would virtually end any discussion of a sixth straight trip to the postseason.

10 minutes you won't get back

Will Brinson and I fire up the podcast machine for your listening pleasure. Can Dalton play well on national television? Can Gase fix Tannehill? We talk about that and more in the latest edition of 10 Minutes You Won't Get Back:

How to watch Kansas vs. Texas Tech: Live stream, TV channel, start time

The Texas Tech Red Raiders will take on the Kansas Jayhawks on Thursday in the Big 12 

Conference opener for both teams.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwtxBye-LIETFo6qRwtZAjA Texas Tech (2–1) is coming off a 59–45 victory over Louisiana Tech and has scored at least 55 points in each of its three games this season. The Red Raiders offense is once again among the nation's best (61 points and 678.7 yards per game), but its defense continues to be the team's weak link, giving up an average of 531.3 yards per game.

Kansas (1–2) has lost 36 straight true road games and has a 39-game winless streak on the road, last winning a game away from Lawrence in 2009.

Texas Tech is 16–1 all-time against the Jayhawks, including winning last season's contest 30–20.

See how to watch Thursday's game below. 

How to watch

Time: 8:30 p.m. ET

TV: Fox Sports 1

Live stream: Watch the game online here.

Upcoming games

Kansas: vs. TCU (10/8), at Baylor (10/15), vs. Oklahoma State (10/22)

Texas Tech: at Kansas State (10/8), vs. West Virginia (10/15), vs. Oklahoma (10/22)

Man Utd 1 Zorya Luhansk 0: Zlatan Ibrahimovic's close-range header gives hosts first Europa League win

it was not quite the swashbuckling intervention Wayne Rooney would have had in mind when he finally entered the scene as a second half substitute at Old Trafford on tonight but the Manchester United captain could at least lay claim to helping his side avoid more embarrassment in the Europa League.

Rooney had only been on the field two minutes when his first touch, a bungled attempt at a shot, suddenly and unexpectedly translated into an assist for Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whose sixth goal in eight starts was enough to finally breach Zorya Luhansk’s resistance and spare manager Jose Mourinho some harder questions.

Whether Rooney’s contribution will be enough to see him force his way back into the starting XI at home to Stoke City in the Premier League remains to be seen – and a badly overhit pass in the 84th minute pointed to a ring-rusty player – but it was enough on the night. Having lost 1-0 to Feyenoord in their opening group fixture, a drab goalless draw to the Ukrainian minnows was not what Mourinho would have had in mind but that scenario was averted, to some relief, 20 minutes from time.

There were no Rooney again but, unfortunately for the United faithful, no repeat of the rampaging first half that had left Leicester City trailing 4-0 at half-time five days earlier. Marcus Rashford hit the crossbar with a thundering shot and Jesse Lingard had a header well blocked, but for all the control United exerted, there was too little in the way of cutting edge as Zorya sat deep, packed men behind the ball and hoped for a chink of light on the counter-attack, not that they indulged in much of that.

The highlights reel in those opening 45 minutes included Jose Mourinho berating Ivan Petriak for diving, moments after the Zorya winger had been dumped on his backside by Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and the sight of a linesman producing a comic fall spoke volumes really.

This was not Louis van Gaal football at its most tedious, there were at least some energetic bursts, but breaking down teams who park the bus does not come that easily to United these days and this offered another reminder of the work Mourinho has to do.

Compare this to the deafening noise and sense of anticipation at Celtic Park in the Champions League the previous night when Celtic and Manchester City played out a thrilling 3-3 draw, though, and it is easy to see why Mourinho has been honest enough to admit he does not want to be in this competition. Twenty minutes had elapsed when Juan Mata’s corner was flicked on by the head of Paul Pogba and the ball sat up nicely for Rashford, who crashed a bullet of a shot against the bar.

United were probably unfortunate a couple of brightening concluded with Lingard on the end of things and not Ibrahimovic, the winger swiping at thin air on one occasion and directing a header from Marcos Rojo’s cross at a Zorya body.

With Rooney hampered slightly by a minor back problem, Mourinho was, he said, reticent about playing his captain out of concern that a poor game would invite more criticism and, as such, had plonked him on the substitutes’ bench for the second game running. Whether from Rooney, someone out on the pitch or another substitute, though, United needed some inspiration, some impetus from somewhere because there was a lot of huffing and puffing and very little else.

Zorya’s one attack of note in the first period had come in the fifth minute when Petriak’s pull back was blazed over by Zeljko Ljubenovic and United almost got a nasty surprise soon after the restart when Ljubenovic narrowly failed to connect with Olexandr Kulach’s cross on a Zorya breakaway when Rojo was left trailing. No United player seemed to want to grab the bull by the horns. Pogba flickered but was struggling to assert his authority, Ibrahimovic started to drop deeper, Mata buzzed around without doing a great deal and Rashford and Lingard were not as effective on the flanks as Mourinho would have hoped as the hour mark came and went and the scoreline remained a decidedly flat 0-0.